CENTENARY OF GUARDIOLA IN CHAMPIONS
Guardiola Makes history: 100 parties in the Champions League
Published:6/12/2017 - 19:00h
Updated:6/12/2017 - 23:03h
The trainer of the Manchester City, Pep Guardiola, already has arrived until the 100 parties like trainer in the UEFA Champions League, contabilizando the contested so much with FC Barcelona as with Bayern Munich and the group 'citizen'
When Pep Guardiola took the reins of the first team of the FC Barcelona in summer of 2008, sure that it did not expect that, hardly nine years later, would have turned into one of the best trainers of the world and of the most successful of the history to level of titles, harvested mainly with the FC Barcelona but also with the Bayern Munich and, who knows, can that this course with the Manchester City.
The one of Santpedor kept up to now a series of victories that is about to to arrive to the 20 consecutive with the group 'citizen', showing that after a season of adaptation already has achieved to touch the necessary keys so that the English team work wonderfully.
This Wednesday, Guardiola fulfils at all more and at all less than 100 official parties like trainer in the UEFA Champions League, going in in a selecto group in which so only can find to four technicians more, José Mourinho, Carlo Ancelotti, Arsène Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson, this last already withdrawn from does years of the Manchester United.
Since it debuted like trainer in the maximum competition of Europe with the FC Barcelona in front of the Sporting of Portugal (3-1), a far 16 September 2008, Guardiola had lived until this Wednesday 99 duels with the Barça, the Bayern and the City in the Champions winning two 'orejonas' with the Barcelona club in the years 2009 and 2011, both in finals against the Manchester United of Ferguson.
Taking like exception the last season with the Manchester City, in which it was deleted by the Monaco in eighth of final, Guardiola always had arrived at least until the semifinals of the League of Champions.
Four season followed (2008-2012) with the Barça, raising the trophy in two occasions, and three campaigns followed with the Bayern Munich, without reaching any final. Now, Guardiola wants to go on doing history with the City, a team up to now with very little tradition in Champions.
Trainers with more parties in Champions
- Sir Alex Ferguson: 194 parties
- Arsène Wenger: 188 parties
- Carlo Ancelotti: 151 parties
- José Mourinho: 139 parties
- Pep Guardiola: 99 parties
- Louis Go Gaal: 95 parties
- Rafa Benítez: 95 parties
- Ottmar Hitzfeld: 95 parties
- Fabio Capello: 86 parties
- Marcelo Lippi: 79 parties
